Boat owner thwarts burglary with 2x4

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Aug 24, 2007 at 12:01 AMAug 24, 2007 at 6:26 AM

LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. – A resident who lives on a houseboat at the Moorings Yacht Club is being credited with breaking up a band of thieves roaming around on the docks after chasing them down with a two-by-four and holding them captive until police arrived.

Joyce L. Miller

A resident who lives on a houseboat at the Moorings Yacht Club is being credited with breaking up a band of thieves roaming around on the docks after chasing them down with a two-by-four and holding them captive until police arrived.

No one was hurt in the incident, and the goods the thieves were trying to make off with were recovered.

According to the Missouri Water Patrol, the thieves appeared to be collecting a stash of alcohol, coolers and copper wire off boats moored at the yacht club on the Grand Glaize Arm of the lake.

Their plan was thwarted when a couple who live at the yacht club were awakened by the sounds of someone sliding a cooler off the top deck of their home. The man jumped up, grabbed the board and took off after the thieves while his wife called police.

The Osage Beach Police Department and the Missouri Water Patrol responded to the call.

When they arrived, the thieves had been cornered by the houseboat owner, who was brandishing the two-by-four at them.

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